Computers open up new ways to think about knowledge and learning. Learning computer science should draw upon and feed these new approaches. In a previous paper called "Leading a Child to a Computer Culture" I discuss some ways to do…

El artículo revisa las características y evolución de los distintos sistemas de reproducción de imágenes científicas y el impacto que históricamente han tenido en el desarrollo de la investigación y el conocimiento. Para ello realiza un acercamiento crítico a las…

This paper presents an analysis of the performance of the Coherent Pixel Technique for urban subsidence monitoring using TerraSAR-X data. Repeated observations for the period comprised between July 2008 and September 2009 have been used. For this purpose the city…

Les infections à Salmonella Typhimurium constituent un problème de taille pour l’industrie porcine et la santé publique car cet animal est un réservoir pour les infections chez l’homme. De plus, on observe, chez des souches appartenant au lysotype (LT) 104,…

Desde los años cincuenta del siglo XX, los medios de
comunicación social son transformados contundentemente por la innovación
científico-tecnológica que les ha permitido cubrir la extensión planetaria y
conformar la Sociedad del Conocimiento, la Explosión de la Información y
la…

We have developed a method and prototype program for assisting two experts in their attempts to construct a single, consensus knowledge base. We show that consensus building can be effectively facilitated by a debugging approach that identifies, explains, and resolves…

This paper examines the issues and the solutions that have been studied in database (DB) integration research and tries to draw lessons from them for knowledge base (KB) integration.

This paper deals with the "Calculus of Knowledge", an extension of the propositional calculus in which one may reason about what other people know. Semantic and Syntactic systems are developed, certain theorems are proven, and a formal solution in the…

This paper studies the relationship of Artificial Intelligence to the study of language and the representation of the underlying knowledge which supports the comprehension process. It develops the view that intelligence is based on the ability to use large amounts…

Trying to capture intuitive knowledge is a little like trying to capture the moment between what just happened and what is about to happen. Or to quote a famous philosopher, "You can't put your foot in the same river once."…